Duke Sex Toy Study Panned by Priest

University Religious Leader Says Study on Female Sexual Attitudes Doesn't Promote Relationships

(AP)  A campus religious leader is unhappy about a study at Duke University that invites female students to attend parties where they can buy sex toys.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that the director of the Duke Catholic Center has lodged a complaint with researchers. The Rev. Joe Vetter says the study doesn't promote relationships.

The study asks female students over age 18 to attend the events that are similar to Tupperware parties but with erotic toys, lingerie and games. The women complete surveys about their sexual attitudes before and after the parties and get product discounts.

A spokesman for Duke said the sex-toy party project went through the peer review process. Vetter says he plans to discuss the topic at Sunday mass.

[robinspp]

Why the priest has to worry about sex, because he is been deprived from sex, a sexually suppressed society remain sex always.

[Sloughfoot]

Duke Catholic Center-Duke is a NonCatholic University, I repeat Non- Catholic University-Go pedal your bs elsewhere like South Bend.

[jsd330]

When you complain about all the other preachers giving their opinions on politics on the Sunday morning news shows, then you can complain about this preacher stating his opinion on sex toy parties.

[SusanStoHelit]

Wow. Really? It's news that a priest doesn't like sex toys?

[thesevenveils]

They don't make sex toys for little boys.

[bigmo47]

Where was he when his fellow priests were having "Sex Boy Parties"?

I guess those were studies that promoted relationships between pedophile priests and alter-boys...

[missme4]

The study is to see if alter boys will prefer sex toys to priests.

[Hosheen]

As usual, another member of the religious reich wants to impose his own sick beliefs on everyone else, whethere they want them or not.

I say kick the SOB's butt to the Vatican and invite him to stay there.

[AttentionDeficit]

Reverend Joe: Take the sex toy out of your rectum before you make comments like that.

[AttentionDeficit]

Wait until he finds they are combining sex toys with Sawz-alls

[johndevinejr]

Who cares

[mysteryroche]

Wow! I have finally found the woman of my dreams. What are you doing tonight?

[anihiel1]

These parties are female empowerment! The church and the good ole boy political network wants to keep women at home and out of the work force. So they push male-female-only marriages and procreation. Women fall victim willingly to that thinking becuase they are flat-out lazy and see babies as a way to get a free ride from a man. We as women deserve, and should be expected to, pull our own weight in society. Who needs a man when a 'toy' is so much better at it and wont get me pregnant or expect me to cook it dinner? Forget relationships, have sex with whoever or whatever makes you happy, and focus instead on your contribution to society through your career and your intellect.

No one even stops to consider the effect of all these unwanted extra children on society, on the food supply and available living area, and on our planetary resources. The male quest for power and domination will kill us all.

[legionofwolves]

Women do trap men with babies, and they do leach money off of men, and you do deserve to pull your own weight in society. However, its a little bit hypocritical to call men 'pigs' for sleeping with multiple women, and then advocate that women do it as well.
"The male quest for power and domination will kill us all."
Come-on, do you know what drives men? Sex, and money. What is intimately intertwined in both, Women. And you will own as much the destruction of Humankind as we do.

[thesevenveils]

Angry Lesbian having girlfriend issues?

[rf35]

"Who needs a man when a 'toy' is so much better at it and wont get me pregnant or expect me to cook it dinner?"

But it will require you to buy it batteries.

[pluckerup]

Hey there Rev. Joe! Maybe you should worry about your pedophile priest buddies and their relationships before you start worrying about someone else.

[unshrub]

If the priest has a problem with it, he should talk about it in church, otherwise he should keep his mouth shut. I am a Catholic, but their sex lives are NO one elses business, just as my sex life is not my priest's business.

[Ms_enza]

Oh yes it is... remember, "The pill is a no-no".

We are a nation of meddlesome busybodies. Our greatest joy is in causing agony for others.

According to the Catholics I'm going to rot in Hell for my life! ISN'T THAT ENOUGH FOR THEM?! Isn't it enough that I will suffer eternal damnation in their Hell that they could JUST LEAVE ME ALONE with all of this sin crap!

****!

[mysteryroche]

You don't sound Catholic, so what we believe shouldn't make a difference to you, so give it a rest. If Catholicism predicates that your behavior (not you personally) will result in a trip to hell, so what? You don't believe it anyway and nobody from the Catholic Church is trying to make you follow their teachings. Has anybody from the Church (not your parents or relatives) ever tried to force you to go to church or follow the its belief system.

Fine, you don't want to be Catholic. Who asked you anyways?

[thesevenveils]

Don't sound Catholic? "What be believe in shouldn't make a difference to you"....

It does when your religion tries to force its values upon non-members of the church. Just like this priest is attempting to do. Just like the Catholic law makers that constantly chisel at laws trying to bring their religious doctrine into law.

Perhaps most people that don't want to be Catholic also don't want to be forced into acting Catholic.

[Stop_the_crying]

If Vetter does not like it then he does not have to go to any of the parties. Stop telling me what I should and should not do.

[legionofwolves]

Rightly said.

[Cyber998]

So basically he's saying people should be coerced into family units through force rather than choice. We're "loving and caring as long as you do exactly what we say" sums up Christianity's history really.

Formalized as a social control structure by a Roman emperor (read: dictator) around 300AD to keep the unruly citizens of his empire in check. Society functioned just fine before this control system was implemented and in the past 200 years since its power has waned has functioned just fine without it (with far less war, death and destitution than during the dark and middles ages in which it was most powerful).

[Ms_enza]

Except for him... remember Catholic... No women... I won't say what we are all thinking now.

[PatDaddy67]

Cyber998,

If you think religion has not existed as an institution prior to the mainstreaming of the Christian church you really have no idea. Societal control through superstition has been with mankind since the beginning; in fact one of the defining differentiating characteristics of **** sapiens has been the speculation of and the belief in the supernatural. From the earliest times priestly figures (shaman, witch doctors, etc?) have attempted to regulate social activity.

[displeased]

More babies is a bad idea. We can't feed the ones that already exist.

[hungry1968-17]

"The Rev. Joe Vetter says the study doesn't promote relationships."





That's the religious basis for "studies"?!?

If they don't promote relationships, then they aren't real studies?!?

[jeremiahjones]

We can be snide and cynical about this article, like Lawyers-Guns-n-Money, or a little more reflective, like jimmy c.

I don't think anyone is arguing to a return of the Puritan sexual values that I grew up with in the 50's. There was a sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s and our Ids have been liberated, but it's certainly worth asking: what good values have been lost? The extended family structures that my parents knew were crumbling in my youth, and an American divorce rate of now 50%, declining births, etc. would certainly indicate an assault on the nuclear family these past 30 or 40 years. I'm no Fundamentalist, but I do wonder with the "religious leader" at Duke if a prominent university is the right venue for a "Tupperware" party with sex toys. Universities used to promote the idea of "in loco parentis"--taking the place of parental guardianship for teens living away from home for the first time, teens confused by their own hormones, whose ideas of self and propriety are still being formed; teens under great and various pressures. We definitely need to ponder the responsibility of our institutions--our military, financial, media and academic institutions--in creating a fragmented, topsy-turvy, often lonely, too often desperate New World Order!

[jeremiahjones]

We can be snide and cynical about this article, like Lawyers-Guns-n-Money, or a little more reflective, like jimmy c.

I don't think anyone is arguing to a return of the Puritan sexual values that I grew up with in the 50's. There was a sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s and our Ids have been liberated, but it's certainly worth asking: what good values have been lost? The extended family structures that my parents knew were crumbling in my youth, and an American divorce rate of now 50%, declining births, etc. would certainly indicate an assault on the nuclear family these past 30 or 40 years. I'm no Fundamentalist, but I do wonder with the "religious leader" at Duke if a prominent university is the right venue for a "Tupperware" party with sex toys. Universities used to promote the idea of "in loco parentis"--taking the place of parental guardianship for teens living away from home for the first time, teens confused by their own hormones, whose ideas of self and propriety are still being formed; teens under great and various pressures. We definitely need to ponder the responsibility of our institutions--our military, financial, media and academic institutions--in creating a fragmented, topsy-turvy, often lonely, too often desperate New World Order!

[petesis]

Where does it claim that it promotes relationships? It is a study. I guess Priests are experts in intersex relationships I guess? Well that is better than them buggering little boys I suppose.

[gnimelf1968]

Why don't you get it? Not promoting relationships means they're telling women they should take care of their own needs, "no relationship needed", and why does everyone assume that all priests are child molesters? I agree there are priests with issues but there are weirdos everywhere.

[billpl-2009]

sex toys can't compete with a "real man"

....because women can't ***** at, lie to or intimidate a sex toy

not to mention, sex toys have no money